Introductory Remarks 



Plant life in the sub-tropical climate of Algiers is quite 

 different from that of central and northern Europe. Most of 

 the trees are evergreens and their abundance confers a 

 delightful luxuriance on the landscape during the winter 

 months. 



Visitors naturallywishtoknow the names of the principal 

 forms of plant life and as no simple, illustrated work of the 

 kind seems to have been published, I have arranged this 

 series of photographs of tree foliage and flowering shrubs 

 which, aided by a few words of explanation, will enable 

 them to be readily identified. 



This collection has no scientific pretensions, comprising 

 as it does, merely the common trees, shrubs etc. to be seen 

 in the course of a day's ramble. It was hardly possible to 

 include many field flowers because their name is legion and it 

 seemed unnecessary to reproduce certain garden shrubs, such 

 as the Poinsettia (large scarlet stars), the Plumbago (pale 

 blue), the fragrant Jasmine, etc. not to mention the numerous 

 varieties of the genus Rose which blossom the winter 

 through. 



The Almond Ti^ee thatdons its pinky-white mantle at the 

 end of January or the beginning of February, the lofty 

 Cypress, the Black Thorn (Prunus spinosa), the Fig tree, 

 only the gnarled skeleton of which is seen by the winter 

 visitor, the majestic Plane Tree and the Beech, also leafless, 

 are too well known to require more than passing mention. 



The visitor whose admiration is excited by the rich 



